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Joseph Lister

            Joseph Lister was born in 1827 in Upton, Essex Which is a small town right out of London. His Dad was a wine merchant and an armature physicist. He had 4 other siblings he attended many different Quaker schools. In 1844 Joseph Lister attended London University, which was against Quaker belief because you had to take a vow before the king of England and the Church of England. He entered University College in London and took fine arts in 1848 before taking medicine. He graduated in 1852. That same year he became a fellow at Royal College of surgeons. He also became house surgeon at the University college Hospital. The next year he had an appointment as an assistant to James Syme the best-known surgeon at the time. After these 3 years after this appointment he was appointed surgeon at Edinburg royal infantry. (Which was the same infantry that James Syme was ahead of.) This is where he met his wife James Syme's daughter. They got married 7 months later they joined the Scottish episcope church. They were childless but they had a happy marriage she joined Joseph in his career full time. In august 1881 he was appointed surgeon at Glasgow Royal infirmary where he was in charge of the ward in the surgical block department. The managers hoped that hospital disease would decrees hugely in their new building. The hope was nothing but emptiness Lister Found that in his male accident report 45 to 50% of his patients died of Sepsis between 1861 and 1865. At this ward were Lister started experimenting with antiseptics. Some of his earliest work dealt with coagulation of the blood and role of the blood vessels in the first sages of inflammation. Both of the researches depended on a microscope and both were connected with the healing of the wounds. Lister had already been trying methods that encourage clean healing around the wounds that would prevent sepsis. Lister thought that sepsis might be caused by dust and pollen or bad air.


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